Gen. Wharton

GEN. WHARTON.-We invite the attention of the voters of the Second Congressional District to the announcement of Gen. John A. Wharton, as a candidate to represent them in our next Congress. We understand Gen. Wharton's health is very bad, owing to the exposure to cold and wet, and the privations attendant upon almost uninterrupted service to the field for near two years past. We are sorry to learn from his intimate friends, that it is not believed, with his naturally slight constitution, he will be able to endure the labors and fatigues of active service in the field much longer. It is, we understand, with this conviction, that he has consented to accept the invitation of his numerous friends to run for Congress. As a general rule, we deem it unwise and impolitic to call our best officers from the army to fill civil offices, at a time when their services in the field are so much needed for the defence of all we hold most dear against an invading enemy who are now plundering and devastating our country. But as Gen. Wharton's feeble constitution and impaired health will, probably, make his withdrawal from the army a matter of necessity, ere long, the above rule cannot apply to him.

It would be superfluous for us to speak of the high claims of General Wharton, upon not only the people of his own district, but of the whole State-There is no man in Texas who has had a more brilliant career both in civil and military life, during the short period since he came upon the stage of action, and it will readily be admitted by all that the Second District could not be more ably represented in Congress.